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INDIANAPOLIS – State Sen. Erin Houchin (R-Salem) has been appointed by Senate President Pro Tem David Long (R-Fort Wayne) to serve as Assistant Majority Whip for the 120th General Assembly.

“I’m looking forward to the next legislative session and serving on the Senate leadership team,” Houchin said. “Expanding access to broadband in rural areas, improving education, boosting job growth, and tackling the drug crisis plaguing so many of our communities will be my top priorities this session.”

Last month something occurred in our general election that has only transpired five times in the 240 year existence of our nation, the president-elect was not the winner of the popular vote.

Hillary Clinton received 61,039,676 votes and Donald Trump received 60,371,193 which would make Secretary Clinton the winner, right? Wrong. In our country we have what is known as the Electoral College to make the final determination of who has won the presidency in the election.

We found the news that Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein was requesting vote recounts in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan surprising and disappointing.

Stein obviously lost the election badly and there is no way that recounts in all of the states she is questioning would even give her the 5 percent of the vote necessary for the Green Party to qualify for federal funds in the next election.

ST. MEINRAD – After nearly 150 years of printing and marketing Christian books and gifts, Abbey Press will close two of its main divisions next year, the company announced Thursday.

Abbey Press’ trade marketing and printing will close in mid-2017. Remaining open will be the publications division, which produces the popular CareNotes line of booklets, Elf-help and other books, and Deacon Digest magazine.

PERRY COUNTY – The Girl Scouts of Southwest Indiana, including Perry County’s chapter, will take cookie orders from Dec. 16 through Jan. 15.

In celebration of 100 years of Girl Scout cookies, the organization will introduce a commemorative Girl Scout S’mores cookie. Girl Scouts of Southwest Indiana will add the newly introduced cookie to its 2017 lineup, where it will join classics like Thin Mints, Caramel deLites and Shortbread.

LEOPOLD—Perry Central reserves Levi Hubert and John Bashor scored the first six points of overtime as the Commodores beat Tell City 66-59 in a boys basketball season opener Wednesday.
Perry Central built a 39-29 lead with 6 1/2 minutes left in regulation, but Tell City chipped away and tied the score 51-51 on Braeden Beard’s 30-foot three-pointer at the buzzer to force overtime.

LANESVILLE—Cannelton hit only 22.0 percent from the field in an 85-34 season-opening boys basketball loss to Lanesville Wednesday.
Lanesville got several fast-break layups and hit 52.2 percent from the field.
The Eagles took control early, jumping to a 26-4 first-quarter lead.
Cannelton wants to run this year too, but Cannelton Coach Michael Snyder said in preseason that he figured several early Bulldog opponents, including Lanesville, “would be better at it than we are.”

TELL CITY—Pike Central scored on drives and free throws to pull away from Tell City for a 50-33 PAC girls basketball victory Tuesday.
Tell City led the entire first quarter, but Pike Central center Erika Hendrixson hit four consecutive free throws to put the Chargers up 14-10 with 2:29 left in the second quarter.
By that time four Tell City starters had two fouls apiece, and guard Katie Goffinet picked up her third foul 17 seconds later.